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Title
Series consists of
Arrangement structure
Series part of
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Date(s)
1898-1971
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Series consists of sequentially numbered files that reflect the activities of the Mining Lands Branch. Included are individual mineral claim files, applications for leases, files dealing with aerial mapping, reports on hydraulic gold mining activities, files on the financial administration of the Branch, correspondence from the Gold Commissioner, reports on petroleum and natural gas wells, returns for mining royalties, and reports on mining companies and syndicates in both the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Files in this series were brought forward from the Mining Lands and Yukon Branch and given new file numbers. Some files actually originated with the Timber, Mines, Grazing and Irrigation Branch before 1906. As well files which had remained current were removed from this series after 1951 and integrated into the Northern Administration and Lands Branch's Northern Quartz (NQ) series. Many of these files have now been reintegrated into this system and therefore bear both a Mining Lands Branch file number and a Northern Quartz file number, as well as Mining Lands and Yukon Branch and Timber, Mines, Grazing and Irrigation Branch file numbers. Despite the inclusive dates of the series, almost all the files were started between 1928 and 1937, and carried on only until the late 1940s. The file jackets of this series bear the inscription "Territorial Mining Lands Service" even though this was not the formal title of an administrative unit in charge of the records.
Conditions of access
233
1577
from 1579 to 1582
from 1585 to 1587
1592
from 1602 to 1603
1605
from 1615 to 1619
1622
1628
from 1634 to 1635
from 1638 to 1639
from 1642 to 1644
from 1647 to 1648
from 248 to 249
from 1575 to 1576
1578
from 1583 to 1584
from 1588 to 1591
from 1593 to 1601
1604
from 1606 to 1614
from 1620 to 1621
from 1623 to 1627
from 1629 to 1633
from 1636 to 1637
from 1640 to 1641
from 1645 to 1646
Terms of use
Copyright belongs to the Crown.
Finding aid
Textual records The finding aid is a file list indicating volume number, file number, title and dates for volume 233. The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the Mikan record. A paper copy is available in the Reference room. 85-1 90 (Electronic)
Textual records The finding aid is a file list indicating volume number, file number, title and outside dates for volumes 248-249 and 1575-1648. The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the Mikan record. A paper copy is available in the Reference room. 85-5 90 (Electronic)
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Biography / Administrative history
In 1922, the Mining Lands and Yukon Branch of the Department of the Interior was split into a Mining Lands Branch and a Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch. The Mining Lands Branch retained only the responsibility for the leasing and regulation of mining operations in the prairies and the North. Its Controller, H.H. Rowatt, was renamed a Superintendent, and the Branch remained under the umbrella of the Dominion Lands Administration, reporting to the Commissioner of Dominion Lands. RG85 General Inventory
Additional information
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Government
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138070
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